Re: Proposed HTTP SEARCH method update

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Phil Hunt <phil.hunt@oracle.com> wrote:
> Ok. I’ll bite. Why doesn’t DELETE do the same thing?


Just today, I saw a case [1] where a popular client sends body in
DELETE, and a popular server outright rejects DELETE with body.

In a messy situation like this, we would naturally seek an authority
or an arbitrator. However, the good people of this working group do
not seem to be interested in playing that role. They are more
interested in documenting the best practice that maximize
interoperability. They will give advices and recommendations, but they
are not here to issue rulings or give permissions.

That's probably the misunderstanding here by people who want GET with
body - they think this working group can be an authority that makes it
happen.

Therefore I think this topic (GET+body) is out of the scope. You do
not need to seek permission from the working group, you will not get
any. You will not get an opposite "decree" either. You can go ahead
and do it, against all advices, and if it becomes a huge success, the
working group will accept the reality and document it down.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30334776/servlets-3-1-how-to-handle-body-in-delete-request

Zhong Yu
bayou.io

Received on Wednesday, 20 May 2015 00:29:30 UTC